Posted on 09/01/2010 3:20:06 PM PDT by newbie2008
The Glenn Beck rally is confusing people.
Why?
He is aiming far beyond what most people consider to be the goalposts.
Using Boyd’s continuum for war: Material, Intellectual, Moral.
Analogously for political change: Elections, Institutions, Culture.
Beck sees correctly that the Conservative movement had only limited success because it was good at level 1, for a while, weak on level 2, and barely touched level 3. Talk Radio and the Tea Party are level 3 phenomena, popular outbreaks, which are blowing back into politics.
Someone who asks what the rally has to do with the 2010 election is missing the point.
Beck is building solidarity and cultural confidence in America, its Constitution, its military heritage, its freedom. This is a vision that is despised by the people who have long held the commanding heights of the culture. But is obviously alive and kicking.
Beck is creating positive themes of unity and patriotism and freedom and independence which are above mere political or policy choices, but not irrelevant to them. Political and policy choices rest on a foundation of philosophy, culture, self-image, ideals, religion. Change the foundation, and the rest will flow from that. Defeat the enemy on that plane, and any merely tactical defeat will always be reversible.
Beck is unabashed that God can be invoked in public places by citizens, who vote and assemble and speak and freely exercise their religion. They are supposed to be too browbeaten to do this. Gathering hundreds of thousands of them to peaceably assemble shows they are not. But showing that the people who believe in God and practice their religion are fellow-citizens who share political and economic values with majorities of Americans is a critical step. The idea that these people are an American Taliban is laughable, but showing that fact to the world — and to potential political allies who are not religious — is critical.
Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society.
This is an astute article and I believe it is spot on.
Great article, thanks for posting.
Rather than direct confrontation, change the paradigm.
Beck is inside the OODA loop.
It’s a good starting point.
Every society needs a sound foundation on which to build. Man needs to be tethered by natural law not his own whims.
I’m not connecting those dots......
In before the anti-Mormons show up .... crap, oh well...magritte
Beck realizes the problem is much more than just ridding ourselves
of communist representatives, senators, and the president;
we must change the hearts and minds of the people who put them there.
Very good.
My comment to those that wondered what was Beck’s point?
“If you have to ask...”
Beck is a beacon of hope and light. The left is literally pooping in it’s pants over what he’s accomplishing.
Now, everytime somebody bashes religion or the right or the constitution or America herself - it makes them look like mega hate mongers, treasonous and AGAINST the people.
Thanks for your insight. Beck’s got it right. Unify Americans on “both sides”. That’s where the power of America comes from.
RUN!
That’s a very insightful and useful article. Thanks.
I’ll say this: I’ve never seen the so called ‘Civil Rights Movment’ ever put back on its heels like Glen Beck just did. Beck simultaneously gave them a big fat target but, there was nothing to attack. It’s like he’s created this huge untouchable and unmovable object that has the creates lots of energy but, has the mass of shaving cream. It can’t be attacked becuase there’s no ‘there’, there. On the other hand it’s both substantial, significant, and growing.
He didn’t take on the left as much as he envloped them. It wasn’t only on that phony Al Sharpton Civil rights stuff, either. He trumped them with his rhetorical religion and his economic message as well. The movement can’t be labeled which is the strength of it.
I knew with Obama’s election, politics would change. While this is true in all presidential elections, it is especially true here. By gaininng their ultimate prize in the form of a black president, the left is now weakened rhetorically. In a real way, they should be proud of this fact. In makes no sense to play the victim card when there no longer is a victim. Beck has exploited this pleasant truth beautifully.
Oh, the "Moral Majority"....never heard of it.
Well,
I think it is high time that you told us who Pablo is
and what makes him so wily.
I think you are right on; we HAVE been too browbeaten to do any of the things that free people should be doing -- praying in public, exercising rights, being proud of this country. The left has done an excellent job FOR DECADES at keeping freedom-loving people quiet -- because THEY'RE the experts -- they know best how to govern, how to teach our kids, how to be an American.
But I think a corner has been turned. I think we're in the middle of another Great Awakening and the forces of darkness are going to go nuts now. But let them. The forces of light ALWAYS conquer the darkness -- if enough people carry the light inside them.
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